The I 35w Bridge Collapse

Author : Kimberly J. Brown (Journalist)
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120696
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I-35W Bridge Collapse written by Kimberly J. Brown (Journalist) and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bridge shouldn't just fall down," Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which killed 13 motorists, injured 145, and left a collective wound on the city's psyche and infrastructure. On her way to a soccer game with a fellow teammate, Kimberly J. Brown experienced the collapse firsthand, falling 114 feet in her teammate's car to the Mississippi River. Although terrified, injured, and in shock, she survived. In this sobering memoir and exposé, Brown recounts her harrowing experience. In the aftermath of the disaster, Brown became both an advocate for survivors and an unofficial whistle-blower about decaying infrastructure. She details her investigation and correspondence with Thornton Tomasetti engineers, including the false official account of the collapse and the eventual revelation of its real causes. In addition, she chronicles the ongoing decay of America's bridges and the continuing challenges faced by leaders to address infrastructure problems across the country. After nearly a decade of research into the collapse and her active and ongoing recovery from psychic and physical injuries, Brown shares her experience and answers the questions we should all be asking: Why did this bridge collapse? And what could have been done to prevent this tragedy?

Author : Garrett Ebling
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781937293758
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collapsed written by Garrett Ebling and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his car took a hundred-foot nosedive during the collapse of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Garret Ebling was left with serious physical and emotional injuries, but his focus on hope allowed him to recover and regain his life.

Author : Patrick Nunnally
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816667667
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City, the River, the Bridge written by Patrick Nunnally and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.

Author : Barry B. LePatner
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 0984497803
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Big to Fall written by Barry B. LePatner and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive overview of the shocking state of our nation's infrastructure and what must be done to fix it

Author : Kimberly J. Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612349773
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The I-35W Bridge Collapse written by Kimberly J. Brown and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Memoir & Creative Nonfiction “A bridge shouldn’t just fall down,” Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which killed 13 motorists, injured 145, and left a collective wound on the city’s psyche and infrastructure. On her way to a soccer game with a fellow teammate, Kimberly J. Brown experienced the collapse firsthand, falling 114 feet in her teammate’s car to the Mississippi River. Although terrified, injured, and in shock, she survived. In this sobering memoir and exposé, Brown recounts her harrowing experience. In the aftermath of the disaster, Brown became both an advocate for survivors and an unofficial whistle-blower about decaying infrastructure. She details her investigation and correspondence with Thornton Tomasetti engineers, including the false official account of the collapse and the eventual revelation of its real causes. In addition, she chronicles the ongoing decay of America’s bridges and the continuing challenges faced by leaders to address infrastructure problems across the country. After nearly a decade of research into the collapse and her active and ongoing recovery from psychic and physical injuries, Brown shares her experience and answers the questions we should all be asking: Why did this bridge collapse? And what could have been done to prevent this tragedy?

Author : United States. National Transportation Safety Board
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collapse of I-35W Highway Bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 1, 2007 written by United States. National Transportation Safety Board and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early afternoon, construction equipment and construction aggregates (sand and gravel for making concrete) were delivered and positioned in the two closed inside southbound lanes. The equipment and aggregates, which were being staged for a concrete pour of the southbound lanes that was to begin about 7:00 p.m., were positioned toward the south end of the center section of the deck truss portion of the bridge and were in place by about 2:30 p.m. About 6:05 p.m., a motion-activated surveillance video camera at the Lower St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam, just west of the I-35W bridge, recorded a portion of the collapse sequence. The video showed the bridge center span separating from the rest of the bridge and falling into the river.

Author : Thomas Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041552735X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing to Avoid Disaster written by Thomas Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.

Author : Wolfgang Seibel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030678180
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement written by Wolfgang Seibel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially easy, the difficult part for public officials and private contractors and consultants alike is to resist incentives that threaten professional skills and standards. Rather than stressing well-known pathologies of bureaucracy as a potential source of disaster, this book argues, learning for the sake of prevention should aim at neutralizing threats to integrity and strengthening a sense of responsibility among public officials.

Author : Bob Herbert
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767930843
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Losing Our Way written by Bob Herbert and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that has never fully recovered from the Great Recession. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way. Herbert’s combination of heartrending reporting and keen political analysis is the purest expression since the Occupy movement of the plight of the 99 percent. The individuals and families who are paying the price of America’s bad choices in recent decades form the book’s emotional center: an exhausted high school student in Brooklyn who works the overnight shift in a factory at minimum wage to help pay her family’s rent; a twenty-four-year-old soldier from Peachtree City, Georgia, who loses both legs in a misguided, mismanaged, seemingly endless war; a young woman, only recently engaged, who suffers devastating injuries in a tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis; and a group of parents in Pittsburgh who courageously fight back against the politicians who decimated funding for their children’s schools. Herbert reminds us of a time in America when unemployment was low, wages and profits were high, and the nation’s wealth, by current standards, was distributed much more equitably. Today, the gap between the wealthy and everyone else has widened dramatically, the nation’s physical plant is crumbling, and the inability to find decent work is a plague on a generation. Herbert traces where we went wrong and spotlights the drastic and dangerous shift of political power from ordinary Americans to the corporate and financial elite. Hope for America, he argues, lies in a concerted push to redress that political imbalance. Searing and unforgettable, Losing Our Way ultimately inspires with its faith in ordinary citizens to take back their true political power and reclaim the American dream.

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674065433
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Forgive Design written by Henry Petroski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.